My comments and opinions are mine and mine alone. My goal is not to argue, debate, or sway. I simply want to express myself.

I've worked with John for a little over 7 years now. He is a decisive, intelligent, and fantastic leader whom I would follow to any company. Period. I understand that excuses are not requested here, only results. Well, we've been hiring roughly a new person every month since beginning with Trimble. A huge breath of fresh ideas and innovations have been infused into SketchUp's (pale?) skin. It's no mystery that development on the SketchUp client slowed near the end of our time at Google. However, the improvements that I've seen over these short months have been astounding to me. I feel like everyone is very excited for the huge potential and future for SketchUp. Albeit, many wholes have yet to be filled, but that's a challenge we're prepared to face. Will you be blown away with the next version of SketchUp? I don't know. We'll find out. Ripping a software infrastructure out of a company (especially Google) and setting it up in another company isn't exactly like moving a tent between two camp grounds. We're working fast and furious to deliver great products (because SketchUp is only part of our portfolio), but it may take some time to see the strides of innovation that we expect from ourselves (let alone the expectations of SketchUp's passionate community). Patience is a luxury that no software company can ask of its users, and I won't do so today. If you've used SketchUp to successfully complete a project in the last month, year, or eight years, then we've done our job. Of course, we want all SketchUp users to continually find success with SketchUp every day, and if they don't they should absolutely explore other options. Competition does wonders for innovation as well (I learned that at Google .

Many thanks for lending me your time and attention.

Cheers!

See if repairing the disk permissions on your computer does the trick.

1. Restart your computer.
2. Open a Finder window.
3. Click Applications.
4. Click Utilities.
5. Double-click Disk Utility.
6. Select your hard drive.
7. Select the First Aid tab.
8. Click Repair Disk Permissions.
9. After the permissions are repaired, exit Disk Utility.
10. Repeat steps one through nine once more for good measure..

For me, I love looking at 3D plans posted at build sites, and it's pretty easy to tell when it's a SketchUp model. The first thing I do is look for the 2D Bryce

Hi Sketchy,

I just sent you a PM asking for a bit more info so I can look into the issue you're seeing with LayOut.

Hi CAT-OH,

If SketchUp Pro 8 still isn't authorized and importing DWGs after you follow EarthMover's great suggestions, I'd be happy to try and help as well.

Regards,
SGT

Hi Lee,

If you end up building your own terrain, we created a Help Center article that may help out:

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=167465

Enjoy!

Hi Bob,

This sounds like a similar that issue popped up with SketchUp 7.1. We're taking a close look and hope to have it fixed in the next SketchUp release.

Hi daiku,

This is a known issue with SketchUp 7.1 that we're keeping an eye on.

Are there others who are encountering this bug?

Turning off hardware acceleration should do the trick, just as Barry suggests.

I've found the following page from Apple really useful to see if a particular graphics card provides the necessary OpenGL 1.5 compliance that SketchUp requires:

http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/index.html

Since you're running OS X 10.5, it looks like the GMA950 only supports OpenGL version 1.2. On OS X 10.6, is supports OpenGL 1.4, which is better but not quite there.

Hi David,

It sounds like you're running into this issue:

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=162724

In SketchUp 7.1, there's a known issue where SketchUp will ignore input to the Measurements box when you click or tab into the box prior to typing.

Cheers!